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...have to look out for her laurels on June 7th and 8th, The applause was very impartially given to both sides, and a single slight attempt to applaud one of Harvard's errors was drowned in a storm of hisses. The Nine were accompanied to Princeton Junction by a number of their Princeton friends, and were started on their homeward journey with an ovation of cheers and well wishes for the coming Yale game...
...number of competitors for the Boylston Elocution prizes is so great that there is to be a preliminary contest on the 8th of June. Besides thinning the ranks, this plan will have the advantage of giving those who remain some idea of each other's powers. This is such an obvious improvement over the old method, that we wonder it has not been adopted before. Three or four years ago there were so many candidates that the Faculty decided to exclude Sophomores; perhaps they might now be allowed to compete; but if this does not seem advisable, we respectfully suggest...
...Boylston Prizes should not fail to secure a larger attendance at those exercises than ever before. It seems that there is to be a preliminary trial, and only those who come up to a required standard of excellence will be allowed to speak for the prizes. The number of speakers will thus be diminished at least one quarter from that of previous years; there will be this year, at the most, only thirty. It has always been a matter of regret that more have not thought it worth their while to come to these exercises; comparisons have been made between...
...preliminary contest, as we have already said, takes place on the 8th of next month. The judges have not yet been appointed, nor has the number to be admitted to the real contest been settled...
...Will the Courant kindly explain what the unusual metre is? The idea, however, of "A Counterfeit Presentment" is very pretty, and very well worked out. It may also be mentioned in this connection that the lines containing the rhyme to which the Advocate objected so strenuously in its last number, are quoted from Mrs. Browning's "A Portrait," one of her most familiar poems...